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What Does Red Hat Want

A Semi-Philosophical Look at the Fedora – Red Hat Relationship

Denise DumasVP, Platform Engineering (RHEL) Flock - August 2015

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Red Hat Knows What the Enterprise Values

● Stability

● Scalability

● Performance

● Security

● Certified, widely available hardware

● Manageability

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Our RHEL Customers Value Stability Yet Demand Innovation

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Fedora = Innovation

A chance to participate in distro-wide experiments● Fast moving● More than Red Hat ideas ● Community .gt. Red Hat

● A chance to try different approaches ● To see what various audiences prefer● To help work the bugs out● To prepare for RHEL● e.g. Fedora Editions

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Red Hat Mission

To be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way.

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Did You Know?

Red Hat's Business Code of Conduct and Ethics includes a clause that specifically allows participation in open source projects

● Not a conflict of interest for employees

● Employees can put project interests over company interests where necessary

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OpenSource to Enterprise

RED HAT JBOSS

MIDDLEWARE

RED HAT

STORAGE

RED HAT

ENTERPRISE LINUX

RED HAT

OPENSTACK

RED HAT

ENTERPRISEVIRTUALIZATION

RED HAT

SATELLITE

RED HAT

CLOUDFORMS

IaaS

PaaS

1M+projects*

* www.blackducksoftware.com/oss-logistics/choose

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Fedora + Red Hat = Truly Open

We all win when it happens in public

●No big secret agenda ● Sometimes lousy communication● We're working to make that better

● Why?● Because Red Hat succeeds when Fedora does● And Fedora succeeds when Red Hat does

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Goals for RHEL.next

No big secret agenda

● Composition changes for the distro●Modularity●Dependency management●Packaging updates

● Even more security

hardened

● Easy to update from

release to release

● Automated composition

Red HatConfidential -

NOT!

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Goals for RHEL.next

A few specific technical areas so far: NOT

● Atomic

● IPV6 through the stack

● Python3

● Seamless DNF integration for sysadmins

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How Red Hat Supports Fedora

● 35 fulltime people across releng, IT, QE, more

● MANY part time people – 100s of engineers working in Fedora

● Maintainers and QE ● Press and marketing

● Sponsorship

● Hardware Infrastructure – just this year added $144K in new hardware, plus power, maintenance etc

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Truth

We do not do this as a charity

● Fedora furthers our Open Source mission

● Fedora directly benefits our product

● Fedora is much more than a beta for RHEL – it is part of our mission to promote open source software development

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What Red Hat Hopes For

● A community that considers the status quo a hurdle, not a goal

● A constantly adapting and evolving community - Fedora will never be "done"

● Positive, constructive dialog

● Interest, feedback, useful ideas

● Community participation

● Community growth

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What Red Hat Plans

● To communicate clearly with one voice as best we can

● Positive, constructive dialog

● To be clear and open about our desired technical outcomes

● To understand when things don't go our way

● To put our money where our mouth is

● To send patches

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What does Red Hat want?To work better with Fedora,

to create the operating system for the next 10 years

Thank You